Bottle Feeding Baby Kittens

Feed kittens using a safe posture.

Bottle feeding baby kittens.

If your kitten is a preemie you will need to dropper feed it until it s strong enough to suck on the bottle. Never feed a kitten on her back like a human baby would eat as this can cause the kitten to inhale fluid into the lungs. Feeding the wrong sort of milk such as cow s milk can have short term and long term effects including diarrhea dehydration nutritional deficiencies and long term health problems due to poor growth. Table of contents 1 warmth and bedding 2 feeding 3 weaning 4 weight and hydration 5.

Never feed a kitten cow s milk or other dairy products dairy alternatives or human baby formula as this can be dangerous or even fatal to the kitten. A newborn kitten can only digest milk and more specifically the milk from a female cat. Make sure to check with your veterinarian if this is the. Always bottle feed in a natural belly down posture the kitten should be comfortably lying or seated with her belly toward the floor.

This resource provides instructions for caring for bottle feeding kittens bottle babies very young kittens who have been abandoned or orphaned.